This effect is observed if the measured file set was produced by untarring some archive created not from a ReiserFS partition (or by copying files from a non-ReiserFS partition or by running a program that writes a bunch of files in some order). This is because the readdir() operation performed on the ReiserFS partition returns file names not in the original write order but rather in some hash order (dependant on the hash function used). Thus when reading files' contents the hard drive heads must move when going from one file to another. Mind you this "benchmark" is barely representing any real workload, but if you really want ReiserFS to outperform any other filesystem in your setup here is one solution: Copy the entire directory that you are not satisfied with to the same partition but with a different name (this can be achieved by the cp -A command), then remove the old directory and rename the new one with the old name. If the partition does not have enough space available, another approach is to tar up the whole partition, clear it, and then untar the previously saved data.

Well, my tar operations were across reiser 3.6 and reiser4 partitions. And if there should be speed problems, the solution is to tar and untar root directory again, right ?_________________http://www.sabayon.org

Well, my tar operations were across reiser 3.6 and reiser4 partitions. And if there should be speed problems, the solution is to tar and untar root directory again, right ?

reiser3 -> reiser4 should work fine, but a lot of people arn't on reiser (my laptop for example was on xfs), and tar'ing it down should work fine, also a simple cp old new && rm -rf old && mv new old on all files in / should work perfectly fine (for those who couldn't guess it, do it from a boot cd, not running system ,) ).

When I use "gentoo", it starts with kernel 2.4.25-gentoo, when using "smp" its using 2.6.5-gentoo. It then complains about missing /lib/modules/... because there is only /lib/modules/2.6.9-rc-mm2. During boot I can see the spash-image of 2004.1.

So how do I start using kernel-2.6.9-rc1-mm2 ???_________________Las torturas mentales de la CIA

BTW As it didn't go futher, I don't know if it is already integrated, but can you please check, if the libata module for Sata Sil is included, as well as support for msdos filesystem and floppy support (I remember the love-livecd missing floppy support)?_________________Las torturas mentales de la CIA